Are the police getting the protests right?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
How should the police be responding to the government’s call to arrest more people on "hate marches" (sic Suella).
Do laws need to change? Do specific chants cross the legal line? And what is the terror threat like over all in the UK right now?
We have an extended interview with Met commissioner Sir Mark Rowley on protest, policing and public trust.
In response to Sir Mark's comments about the Attorney General's Office, an AGO spokesperson said: "There has been no delay in the charging process for the two women who were arrested on suspicion of displaying images in support of Hamas.
"CPS received a complete version of the police report in the early hours of this morning – this was passed on to AGO at midday today for permission to consent to prosecute and this is being dealt with this evening as a matter of urgency."
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | We identified them two days ago and two of the three women were arrested. |
| 0:17.4 | As you say, they had pictures of the paragliding terrorists on their back. My team and |
| 0:22.5 | CPS worked flat out for 36 hours because we want to get it to charge. It's a terrorism |
| 0:26.9 | offence. It's supporting a prescribed organisation. It's supporting Hamas. CPS and my team have |
| 0:31.0 | worked flat out. And yet, the Attorney General's office tells us they need two to four weeks |
| 0:35.4 | to consider the paperwork. So we're going to have the precise impact on the people who are |
| 0:41.3 | really toxic, we need a system that follows through behind it. That's Sir Mark Rowley, |
| 0:46.8 | the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Britain's top cop, who has come in for a lot of criticism |
| 0:52.0 | from within government over not doing enough over these pro-Palestinian protests. |
| 0:57.7 | His frustration is that they're doing their bit, it's the rest of the criminal justice system isn't doing theirs. |
| 1:04.8 | Today we have an extended interview where we ask him about how those protests are being policed, |
| 1:11.0 | why we've seen police taking down posters of kidnap victims, |
| 1:14.8 | and what his response is to Suella's hate march. |
| 1:18.8 | We're going to be hearing from him and more. |
| 1:21.1 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:25.8 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:28.0 | It's John. It's John. |
| 1:29.1 | It's Emily. |
| 1:30.0 | And later on in the podcast, once we've spoken to Sir Mark, we'll be going back over yesterday's problem that we had with one particular word, what its meaning and what its origin was. |
| 1:41.0 | Yes, fuck pig gate. |
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